LaunchCode LC-101 Blogz Project

Teaching Fellow help for students working on LC-101 Unit 2 final assigment Blogz

Goal

• modularize the application by splitting the MVC pieces into separate modules
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How to use

Clone the repo

• git clone https://github.com/the-vampiire/blogz

Create and activate the virtual environment using the env.yml file

• conda env create -n blogz -f env.yml
• source activate blogz
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Startup the MySQL sever

• use MAMP or if you have mysql installed use mysqld
• make sure you have a login and password
• create a database called blogz

Create the config.py file

• create the file outside of the app/ directory
• add the following variables
• the port will typically default to 3306 or 8889 depending on the database server you use

DB_URI = 'mysql+pymysql://USERNAME:PASSWORD@localhost:PORT/blogz'

SESSION_SECRET = 'SECRET GOES HERE'

Start the server

• start using python run.py

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Original Project Requirements

• Log in (or register for a new account). The main page should display a list of users. Clicking on a user should redirect to a page displaying all blog posts written by them.
• Navigate to the page displaying all posts by all users. The author should be displayed below each post, and clicking on their name should redirect you to that user’s blog page.
• Click “New Post”, create a new post, and check that you are redirected to a page with just that individual entry. The username of the author should be shown at the bottom.
• Clicking on that username should redirect to that user’s blog page.
• Navigate to the page displaying all posts. The new post should be on that page with the username listed underneath.
• Log out. Click all posts and make sure you can still see this page. Click new post, and you should be redirected to the login page.